LEGO, Man of Steel, and more Secret Villains

LEGO, Man of Steel, and more Secret Villains

Man of Steel has been able to maintain secrecy surrounding the story line and what villains like General Zod will be up to. Just who Superman will face off appears to be General Zod (Supe’s nemesis in Superman II) but this week there has surfaced an unusual tip that another super villain may take a serious role in the film. LEGO, the toy brick company we all know and love, may have spilled the beans for another villain in Man of Steel.

Collider reports these LEGO sets are in the making for a release in 2013:

  • 76000 Arctic Batman vs. Mr.Freeze – Aquaman on Ice
  • 76001 Batman vs.…
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GIVEAWAY! ‘Avengers’ on Blu-ray

GIVEAWAY! ‘Avengers’ on Blu-ray

Marvel’s The Avengers releases for Home Entertainment this week and we’re giving you a chance to win a copy! Details and rules below.

We’ll give you your choice of either a Blu-ray or iTunes download. Everyone has their preference when it comes to physical versus digital copies. The advantage of Blu-ray is that it has a place on your shelf, you can physically loan out your copy — you have a hard physical copy. The advantage of iTunes is the instant gratification, the ability to download the film from iCloud again and again, or watch it instantly on your Apple TV, or any other Apple device…

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Possible ‘Hulk’ Movie After ‘Avengers 2’

Possible ‘Hulk’ Movie After ‘Avengers 2’
Slash Film

After two semi-successful attempts at bringing Bruce Banner’s The Hulk to the big screen, most everyone agreed Joss Whedon finally got it right in The Avengers. However, the argument was maybe it worked this time because Hulk was a supporting character instead of the star. Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige didn’t agree with that and threw around the idea of possibly making another standalone Hulk movie in the future, this one starring Mark Ruffalo who is under a multi-picture contract with Marvel.

The questions are when would that happen and what story would it tell? In a new…

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Looney Tunes Being Rebooted

Looney Tunes Being Rebooted
Slash Film

Now Jenny Slate, a former SNL cast member, is writing a new features for Warner Bros. that will likely become another hybrid CG/live-action film featuring the likes of Bugs, Daffy, and more.

Well that’s interesting. This is slightly more concerning.

THR says that the producers are David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith, with the latter being the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies author, and the screenwriter of Dark Shadows and the author/screenwriter of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. And, frankly, after those last two films, I can’t say that his name attached to this project…

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‘Fringe’ Season 5 Poster

‘Fringe’ Season 5 Poster
TV Line

Premiering Friday, Sept. 28 at 9/8c, the 13-episode farewell run is set almost exclusively in the year 2036 — as was Season 4′s Episode 19, “Letters of Transit”* — as Fringe team members past and future try to solve the hairy problem that is an Earth ruled by Observers.

Check out the poster here (spy the callouts to the series’ assorted “bumper” icons, like the handprint and apple?), then scroll down to read more about Season 5.

I’m really looking forward to this season even though it’s only going to be a thirteen episode final run. I am sad of course that there isn’t going to be…

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Film.com on ‘Trouble with the Curve’

Film.com on ‘Trouble with the Curve’
Film.com

This is a movie starring an old coot, clearly made for old coots of all ages who like their movies served up with a little bit of story, a little bit of character and a soupcon of schmaltz. Yet it ends up just on the right side of the line between crowd-pleasing and pandering. Even if Eastwood’s grumpy old man routine wears you down – it’s perhaps too much of a not-very-good thing – there are lots of terrific second bananas, including Amy Adams, John Goodman and Justin Timberlake, to counter all that self-conscious squinting, scowling and grunting.

The review is largely in favor of the…

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The Stars Sing in Making of Les Misérables Video

The Stars Sing in Making of Les Misérables Video

“I thought it was an amazing opportunity to do something genuinely groundbreaking,” said director Tom Hooper. If this featurette is any indication, I believe the filmmaker hit the mark. It must have been incredibly daunting, but it would appear to excel greatly as the cast lived up to the demands of the production.

Les Misérables as Hooper would have it is heavenly based after the musical adaptation that’s been on tour for decades. It is the longest-standing broadway musical to date, and anyone that appreciates musicals that has seen it can tell you why. The story line is rich, the…

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Joss Whedon was reluctant to Direct ‘Avengers 2’

Joss Whedon was reluctant to Direct ‘Avengers 2’
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He’s also back to work prepping for Avengers 2, despite admitting multiple times that the pace of the first Avengers movie almost killed him.

Why jump back into the fire understanding one can only cheat death so many times? Well, it goes back to storytelling.

“There’s a business aspect to it and I would be disingenuous not to say that, but the question for me is, Do I have another story to tell about these people? So we worked on the business side of it and I didn’t think it was going to happen—I was like ‘I’m never going to do this again.’ But once they worked on the business aspect…

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‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Posters

‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Posters
Slash Film

With Wreck-It Ralph, not only is Disney making a movie about video games, they’re paying homage to video games. In addition to the story of Ralph (John C. Reilly), Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) and fictional games like Fix-It Felix Jr., Sugar Rushand Hero’s Duty, real life games all exist in this world. There’s Pac-Man, Q-Bert, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter II, all of the classic games we grew up with in the Eighties and Nineties.

A new set of posters for the film has been revealed that focuses on those tangental characters and fans of video games are surely going to…

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Before and After Episode 10

Before and After Episode 10

TJ and Joseph before and after, but mostly before Episode 10 of The MovieByte Podcast. They discuss TJ’s Bones article, Google docs problems, Skype messaging sounds, Google Drive and Dropbox, comments on an article by Jonathan Geller on BGR about the iPhone 5, comments on websites, talking about TV shows on MovieByte, real food, Dairy Queen, and Hardees, eating and dieting and the price we pay for being geeks and more.

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